Mastodawn

Imagine being the lawyer who argues this position, straight faced, to the Court. What an embarrassment and disgrace to the profession.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-doj-statue-liberty-ballroom_n_6a231911e4b0a18aef0c0c78

Trump Admin Argues They Could Bulldoze Statue Of Liberty If They Wanted — So Get Over It

“So move fast and break things and nobody has standing?” U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett asked during a hearing on the president's ballroom project.

HuffPost

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴6h ago

Labour deputy says Farage is a threat to democracy and calls for misinformation clampdown | Lucy Powell | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/05/labour-deputy-says-farage-is-a-threat-to-democracy-and-calls-for-misinformation-clampdown

Labour deputy says Farage is a threat to democracy and calls for misinformation clampdown

Lucy Powell calls for tougher laws to tackle misinformation and says Reform UK has benefited from bots and troll farms

The Guardian

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴8h ago

Trees planted by Robert Burns found on his Dumfries farm

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r2r7r1w92o

Trees planted by Robert Burns found on his Dumfries farm

A stand of mature beech trees and a wooden mantelpiece are among a series of discoveries at Ellisland.

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴8h ago

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic - Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

Ars Technica

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴8h ago

evacide 8h ago

You can tell a lot about a person by how they behave when someone they like or that they need something from is accused of sexual assault.

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴9h ago

Sam Litzinger 9h ago

Exclusive: US states preparing lawsuit to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-states-are-preparing-lawsuit-block-paramounts-acquisition-warner-bros-2026-06-05/

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴9h ago

The Gibson in the desert 9h ago

Watching the future happen somewhere else is a real bummer.

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴9h ago

Kevin Beaumont 9h ago

It looks like Microsoft's DevOps libraries for Azure Functions might have been compromised. No statement yet but Github is nuking Microsoft's own repos.

https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/miasma-reaches-azure

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds

GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴9h ago

Ladies&gentlemen, the Weekend 15h ago

Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴9h ago

Downing Street hits out at 'people seeking to stir division' after Vance's Nowak post

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlplwn1jkro

Downing Street hits out at 'people seeking to stir division' after Vance's Nowak post

The US vice-president wrote the "only response is righteous anger" when referring to Henry Nowak's death on X.

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